The Film Daily (1930)

THE Friday, August 1, 1930 ■aBZOk DAILV € LATEST HOLLYWOOD HAPPENINGS © Coast Wire Service "Her Wedding Night" Title of Bow Vehicle "Her Wedding Night" has been chosen definitely as the title for Clara Bow's new vehicle, formerly Little Miss Bluebeard." It is now in production under Frank Tuttle. Supporting Miss Bow are Ralph Forbes, Charles Ruggles and Skeets Gallagher. Third "Humanettes" Finished Frank Newman has completed the second and third of his series of "Humanettes" for RKO. Newman is using stars and players of reputation in this series. Among the headliners being used in the two "Humanettes" staged by Leigh Jason are Marv Hutchinson. Theodore Lorch. Frankie Fay. Earl Hampton, June Clvde, Benny Rubin, Raymond Maurel, Dorothy Vernon, Gilbert Rovce and others. Newman is assisted in the production of these "Humanettes" by E. Arlington Yalles, art director; Ted Chassman. editor; Llovd Knechtel. photographer, and E. Day, recorder. Dick Winslow for "Tom Sawyer" Dick Winslow, 14-vear-old juvenile, has been sierned bv Paramount for a role in "Tom Sawyer" with Jackie Coogan. "Sunnv" Nearing Completion "Sunnv", in which Marilyn Miller is starrine for First National, will be finished in about two weeks. Miss Miller will then go to New York to be starred in a Ziegfeld stage production. David Rollins Featured David Rollins has been assigned a feature role in Fox's "Up the River". Other featured players in this prison picture include Warren Hymer, William Collier, Sr., Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, George MacFarlane, Robert Burns, Claire Lure, Goodee Montgomery, Robert O'Connor. Toan Marie Lawes and Helen and Elizabeth Keating. Garrett, Marcin Sign New Contracts Oliver H. P. Garrett, author, and Max Marcin, dramatist and director, have signed new long-term contracts as studio writers for Paramount at Hollywood, according to an announcement today. Tack Oakie Starts New Film Tack Oakie has started his newest picture, as yet untitled, under the direction of Victor Heerman. The story centers about a champion lightweight boxer of the American ^Tavy. played by Oakie, who is s,ianghaied aboard a foreign warship bv a lawyer portrayed by Harry Green. The screen play is by George Marion, Jr. In the cast are Eugene \'?i '■ Lil,ian Rothl Jean Del ValAlbert Conti, Andre Cheron, Ivan Simpson and Tom Ricketts. A Little from "Lots" By RALPH WILK jCDWARD WOODS, California boy, who played in "Speakeasy," "Trap," "June Moon" and other New York plays, is attracting much attention by his work in "Mother's Cry," which Hobart Henley is directing at First National. Young Woods also played in "The Last Mile," in Los Angeles, and has been on the stage for the past eight years. * * * Freddie Fleck, veteran assistant director, will assist Luther Reed on "Babes in Toyland." Freddie also worked under Reed on "Rio Rita," "Hit the Deck" and "Dixiana." Freddie was for several years casting director at the Paramount Long Island studio. * * * Si Wills and Bobby Carney are all smiles these davs. Their comedy, "All for Mabel." is being given a pre-release showing at the Los Angeles LTnited Artists theater. Young Wills and Carney are under contract to Pathe as comedians and writers. * * * Our Passing Show: J. L. Warner and Florenz Ziegfeld visiting the. "Sunny" set at First National; Tack Adolfi motoring to the Warner Bros, studio; Harvey Thew returning from his vacation. * * * Nick Musuraca, who first peered through a camera at the old Vitagraph studio in Brooklyn, is photographing "Half Shot at Sunrise," at RKO. He also handled the camera work on "The Cuckoos," "Conspiracy" and "Inside the Lines." * * • Some Louis' — Mayer, Mann, Brock, the Fourteenth, St. King, McLoon, Sarecky, ville. * * * Several vears ago William LeBaron and Anne Caldwell wrote olavs under the Charles B. Dillingham management in New York. Now LeBaron is head of the RKO studios and Miss Caldwell is writing for the musical screen. Her stai?e successes include "Chin Chin," "Tack O' Lantern." "Stepping Stone«" and "Tio Top," all starring Fred Stone. She is now writing the book and lvrics for "Heart of the Rockies," which Luther Reed will direct. * * * Walter Futter, hustling producer and golfer, has signed Paul Gerard Smith to write the dialogue for the second picture of the new "Curiosities" series, which will he released by Columbia. Walter is a Lincoln, Neb., boy, who made good in New York and Hollywood. * * * "Renegades," a story of romance and the foreign legion featuring Warner Baxter, Luana Alcaniz and Myrna Loy, has gone into production, with Victor Fleming directing. Noah Beery, Gregory Gaye, George Cooper, Bela Lugosi, C. Henry Gordon and Colin Chase are also included in the cast. Fleming will shoot the picture on the sand dunes near Point Hueneme, and on barren spots in the San Jacintos and the Sierras. * * * Some Marks — Connelly, Larkin, Sandrich, "Easy," Jones, Twain, on your. * * * "Fair Warning," outdoor film based on Max Brand's "The Untamed," has gone into production with Alfred L. Werker directing. With his company of players, including George O'Brien, Louise Huntington, George Brent, Nat Pendleton, Erwin Connelly and Willard Robertson, Werker is on location high up in the picturesque Sierra Mountains in the vicinity of Mount Whitney. * * * Young William Bakewell is now getting his first taste of this socalled "Hollywood Night Life," which he has been reading about for sometime but which until now he has never encountered. As tht featured juvenile in "The Bat Whispers," tvhich Roland West is directing for United Artists, Bakewell starts work after dinner and retires for the day around seven in the morning. * * * John Alton, who has been with First National for several vears, has been signed by the Terra Film Co., and will sail for Berlin in August. He is a cameraman. * + * Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern are offering trophies for the winners in a putt-putt tournament to be held on a miniature golf course. Members of "The Man in the Sky" company and guests will participate in the tourney. * * * Vincent Barnett. Hollywood's most famous practical joker, found the tables reversed when he was cast for the role of a butler who is the butt of most of the humor in "A Royal Flush," a recent Pathe comedy. * • * Wallace Smith, who is quite a wanderer, has capitulated to the 28 Pearl Eaton Girls Awarded New Contracts Twenty-eight Pearl Eaton girls, including 19 dancers and nine showgirls, have been awarded new contracts at the RKO studios. The dancers are Lililan Aaron, Bernice Bond, Virginia Carroll, Ruth Davis, Ivy Dee, Evelyn Eager, Mildred Frizell, June Glory, Blanche Gonzales, Bernice Graves, George Ann Garnette, Ann Karina, Charlotte Lee, Dorothy Ray, Valetta Rey, Helen Shepard, Marion Weldon and Alice Jans. The show girls are Alice Adair, Nancy Lee Blaine, Nadine Dore, Estelle Etterre, Mary Jane Halsey, Dorothy Phillips, Betty Reck'aw, Dorothy Simms and Irene Thompson. Fairbanks, Jr., in "Lightnin* " Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., has been signed by Fox for a featured role in "Lightnin' " starring Will Rogers. Henry King will direct. Next for Barthelmess Richard Barthelmess is due back to begin on his next First National picture about Sept. 15. He is now vacationing in Western Canada. After finishing his new film, Barthelmess and his wife will go abroad for several months. charms of California. The noted author and soldier-of -fortune, who has been in Alaska with the George Archainbaud company making exterior scenes for "The Silver Horie," has written to several friends that he is 'homesick' for Hollywood and confesses a dislike for further traveling. * * ♦ Hallam Cooley, currently appearing with Ann Harding in Paihe's "Holiday," adapted from Philip Harry's famous play, is one individual who has been quite as successful in his avocation as in his vocation. This favorite young screen actor is as well a widely known real estate operator in Southern California. His efforts are largely responsible for the development of Laguna Beach, one of the most beautiful seaside colonies along the Pacific. H >wever, Hallam is not permitting this to interfere with his screen work. * * * Lucien Littlefield is portray hi j one of the biggest roles of his career in "Great Day." which Harry pollard is directing. As soon as this assignment is finished, another lucrative role awaits this vrominent character actor at the Universal studios. * * * Walter Long has been -i^ned 1>\ Warners for a role in "The Seel Highway," comedy drama feato Grant Wither and Marv Astor. William Wellman will direct this Ma.ide Fulton story.